a hopefully final complaint about Sherlock: the (paraphrased) line “I am not a very good man, but I think I am a better one than you have given me credit for being,” is originally from The Adventure of the Yellow Face, one of the few Holmes stories to deal with race and by far the most liberal-for-the-time one. The line is actually said by that story’s client to his wife as he tells her of course he will accept, love and raise her half-African daughter, and that she had done him a disservice by thinking he would reject a little girl on the grounds of her skin colour.
So I dunno, seeing it divorced from its very important original context kinda bugged me.
